Hi all - I want to talk about a few good and bad things and I want to hear other peoples thoughts as I have some good ideas.

I will start off with a sadly uneventful report on the state of the Keep Appleby Beautiful community group for this month.
As for K.A.B: There has not been much happening in terms of large scale community activity at the moment, however, me and my partner in cleanup crime have been going solo in a couple of rubbish cleaning sprees around the area.
We filled one bag of rubbish from the mid section of Otepuni Gardens, three shopping bags from the old school grounds, traced a trail of industrial rubbish to Pac'n'Save (I will be reporting on that to them about their waste methods) and collected a box of beer full of rubbish on the way home from work the other day. =)

As for membership, We have only one extra member since the article on the Wall painting, but we are hopeing to have another new official member join in November.
He lives on Ythan street and has some good ideas to contribute.

Summer should bring better photos for uploading to the site and good gardening weather.
On some good news
I watched a boy with his friends carry a empty drink bottle for 200m past waterways and plenty of bushes he could have thrown in in to. So I said it was good of him to put it in a bin when he did.

On some not so good news,
I found the 'stash' spot for the lazy local pamphlet delivery person, there would be around 1000 undelivered pamphlets hidden in the garden in the old school on Crinnan Street that I'm sure the businesses and the Police would love to hear about(see Photos), pity the young ones are the ones doing the littering.
I think for some Its cool to not care, and for others its too much effort.

In Otepuni Gardens; due to a BAD rubbish bin design there is rubbish blowing around. This is because the opening of the bin prevents bigger items and hands from going in without touching the sides. Also, Unfortunatly, there has been some graffitti on one of the seats. Combine this with the rubbish problem and it really doesnt compliment the beautiful flowers and trees ithe gardeners do so well to cultivate.
So I would like your support to put to the Council the Idea of putting up a new rubbish bin and design and include in the request a rubbish bin in the vicinity of the dairy and fish and chip shop on Crinnan Street to try remove some of the Rubbish from around the school and the Bus-stops on Ythan Street.

There is also some new tagging in south invercargill one is near the new walking track off Elles rd behind the Hospital and more on the Rugby grounds near KFC on the Clubrooms.
Therefore, I would also like the council to fix their graffiti plan because I don't think they are photographing and keeping a record of the location of each tag before removal. I keep seeing the same ones appearing and there are common words and symbols in a lot of them. I think that if the police and councils can work together and catch these vandals/Gangs of youth criminals then they would be doing scoiety a favour now and in the future.

Well done to everyone who recycles each week it makes the recycle mans job a bit easier if the bins arent so full.
On that note; I also want to see our recycling efforts put to better use, a lot of our recycling is shipped overseas to be recycled, I only think they sort it here. I want to know WHAT HAPPENS TO THE MONEY they make from selling it? and what do we get in return for using our time and NZ's clean water to wash all our items... Recycling doesnt have to be just your glass cardboard and plastic either, at the moment Donna Peterson In Invercargill City Council is doing a huge spring anti-green waste at our dump campaign and has ordered 'no green waste' stickers on all of Invercargill's wheelie bins. Alot of money has also been spent on education and public notices in the paper, one method of reducing compostable material was suggested to grasscylce and not use a